freezing hop pellets

I grow hops and dry and freeze them, but I was wondering if I can freeze hop pellets as well. Now and then I find a good deal on quantities of hop pellets and thought if I weighed them out into ounce bags, could I freeze them like whole hops???? Any hop experts out there?

The freezer is the only place you should be storing hops. I'm no expert but I think you can trust me.

They last even longer if you can vacuum bag them, or use a canning jar before freezing. Air and moisture is what they don't like.

A vacuum sealer is a wise investment.
Hops ain't cheap, and the prices are creeping up.
I buy 8 oz. bag pellets and seal / freeze what I don't use. Much cheaper than the 1 oz. bags.

SEndorf said:

A vacuum sealer is a wise investment.
Hops ain't cheap, and the prices are creeping up.
I buy 8 oz. bag pellets and seal / freeze what I don't use. Much cheaper than the 1 oz. bags.

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I agree with SEndorf! I bought a vacuum sealer for the purpose of buying hops in larger quantities since they are much cheaper that way. Once I open the bag for a brew I measure out the rest in 1oz increments and vacuum seal them up ASAP and place them in the freezer. Like others have said, I'm no expert either but I believe hops (cones or pellets) should be stored in a freezer only.

In a freezer that is part of a frost free fridge they will last 6 months to a year before they start to degrade if vac sealed. If not vac sealed the quality starts to drop pretty fast. At least that has been my experience. A few months in the freezer part of my my kitchen fridge and I have noticed they degrade quite a bit. For best results I found that if I keep them in a non-frost free deep freezer and they will last a very long time if vacuum sealed. A month back I found an unopened pound of cascade I forgot about in the bottom of our deep freezer. It was 3 years old! The pellets smelled just as fresh as the first pound of that variety I opened when they arrived at my door step from hops direct.

Used half the found pound in a 30 minute hop stand for a DIPA. The aroma and flavor was perfect!

Keep mine in a freezer. My Christmas present last year was a vacuum sealer

There are any number of hop storage vs AA% calculators that readily show the rather dramatic benefit of freezing...

Cheers!

The best way to store pellet hops, is in quart size mason jars and vacuum sealing them using a foodsaver and their mason jar attachment, and storing in a freezer. A quart jar can hold one pound of pellet hops perfectly. These jars are much easier to use vs. vacuum seal bags, and infinitely reusable, versus the bags which are consumables.

cyberbackpacker said:

The best way to store pellet hops, is in quart size mason jars and vacuum sealing them using a foodsaver and their mason jar attachment, and storing in a freezer. A quart jar can hold one pound of pellet hops perfectly. These jars are much easier to use vs. vacuum seal bags, and infinitely reusable, versus the bags which are consumables.

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I like separating my hops in 1 and 2 oz bags as opposed to constant opening and closing a jar and exposing all the hops.

Buy hops. Bag hops. Hops won't see air until they get tossed in the kettle.

A roll isn't that expensive.

All good advise! I keep mine vacuumed and stored frozen.

Cheers
Jay

I use a vac sealer as well. I use a bigger vac bag than needed, so I can cut off the seal, remove some pellets, and reseal the same bag.